Top Books Derived from 11 “Top 100” Lists

This post has its roots in a post from /r/booklists which linked to a blog post about the “Top 10 Top 100 Book Lists”. This post linked to 10+ “Top 100” book lists from sources such as TIME magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Modern Library, etc. They were all in such different formats, and such different ways of being presented that I wanted to amalgamate all of these into one master “list” in order to compare them (thirteen lists in total since I also added in the first 100 of the Reddit’s 200 favorite books). I have since thrown this into a pdf file on Scribd if anyone is interested. My next step was to compare each of these and see what books are most recommended in top lists. I omitted two lists (100 most influential books ever written and 100 Major works of creative nonfiction) since there was VERY LITTLE overlap between the other lists which were primarily fiction. I made one giant list that combined 11 “Top 100” Book Lists. The complete table, again available as a PDF on Scribd lists all the books I’m the left hand column and all the lists along the top. An ‘X’ denotes that the book was included in that list regardless of position. The books are sorted vertically by the number of lists in which the book is included.

July 24, 2013 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Anonymous says:
    July 27, 2013 at 2:19 am

    Excellent work – looks like
    Excellent work – looks like someone is as OCD as I am!

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  2. Anonymous says:
    July 27, 2013 at 2:25 am

    One of these lists is
    One of these lists is librarian’s favorite books, but it is from 1999. I am very much interested in updating this list. Please feel free to email me with your name, title, and favorite book. My email address is [email protected]. Thanks in advance!

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